Lu Zhangong

Lu Zhangong (simplified Chinese: 卢展工; traditional Chinese: 盧展工; pinyin: Lú Zhǎngōng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lo Tian-kang; born May 1952) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as the CPC Secretary of Henan.

Biography

Born in Cixi, Zhejiang Province, he started working in March 1969, and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in January 1975.

In September 1988, he became the vice secretary of the CPC Jiaxing city committee and the secretary of the discipline commission there. He was elevated to the position of secretary of the CPC Jiaxing Committee in December 1989. In March 1991, he became the vice director of the organization department of the CPC Zhejiang committee. He was promoted to director of the organization department and a member of the standing committee of the CPC Zhejiang committee in December 1992. One year later, he became the vice secretary of the CPC Zhejiang committee and head of the organization department. In July 1996, he was appointed vice secretary of the CPC Hebei committee. In October 1998, he became the vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, secretary of its secretariat and vice secretary of its Party group. In January 2001, he was appointed vice secretary of the CPC Fujian committee, and became vice governor and then acting governor of Fujian in October 2002. His post of governor was confirmed in January 2003. In February 2004, he became acting secretary of the CPC Fujian committee, and on December 16 of that year, he resigned from his post as governor of Fujian and became the CPC party chief of the province. In January 2005, he was elected chairman of the standing committee of the Fujian People's Congress.^[1] In December 2009, he was named CPC Secretary of Henan province, China's most populus.^[2] He was then reelected as secretary of central China's Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on October 30, 2011.

Lu was an alternate member of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a full member of the 16th Central Committee. He currently serves as a member of the 17th Central Committee.

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